Urban Design
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Wood Windows – Making the Case for Sustainability
It is a frequent occurrence in Vancouver. A van pulls up to an old house and within a few hours the house has new windows. It is as easy now to replace...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation -
Video Vancouver: The STROAD
From Charles Marohn, Executive Director at Strong Towns. When you combine a street and a road, you get a STROAD, one of the most dangerous and...
By Yuri Artibise -
Facadism as a Heritage Strategy
Vancouver Heritage Foundation would like to thank our guest writer for this weeks article, Marta Farevaag, urban planner and Principal of PFS Studio...
By Vancouver Heritage Foundation -
The Lulu Series: Vancouver Public Space Network, March 28, 2013
Good cities are defined by the quality of their public spaces. Whether these are lively public squares or plazas, parks, beaches, civic architecture or...
By Yuri Artibise -
Victoria’s Johnson Street Bridge: a thoroughfare of song
It’s always refreshing when city planners see infrastructure projects not merely as utilitarian exercises, but also as opportunities to produce works of...
By Casey van Wensem -
MOV – Upcycled Urbanism Update: Sunday, March 10
Last Sunday’s Upcycled Urbanism workshop at the Museum of Vancouver saw participants engage in a group hallucination. Led by UBC School of...
By Ian Lowrie -
MOV: Upcycled Urbanism Workshop, Sunday, March 17th
Please join us for the second workshop in MOV’s Upcycled Urbanism series: Block Talk: creating spaces that connect people DATE: March 17th TIME...
By Spacing -
Laneway Housing Event: March 20, 2013
The Emerging Green Builders of Metro Vancouver are proud to invite the general public to a special presentation by top laneway housing experts on this...
By Yuri Artibise -
CoV – Ironclad Art Manhole Cover Design Challenge
The City of Vancouver invites everyone who lives, works or goes to school in Vancouver to submit designs for new manhole covers. Contest Dates Opens...
By Spacing -
SALA Lecture: Eric Miller—March 18, 2013
Lecture by UBC Margolese National Design for Living Prize winner Eric Miller, University of Toronto. For over 30 years, Eric Miller’s research into the...
By Yuri Artibise -
MOV – Upcycled Urbanism Update: Sunday, March 3
Next Session: Sunday, March 10 2:00PM – 4:00PM @ MOV (1100 Chestnut St) And we are off to the races… Leading into a series of workshops taking place...
By Anya Paskovic -
MOV Upcycled Urbanism, Second Workshop – March 10th
Please join us for the second workshop in MOV’s Upcycled Urbanism series: Hallucinating in Public: creating environments that are beautiful and...
By Spacing